This blog has been a way to interact with some of you around "subjects" that Aristotle has taught too many of us in the West, even today, to disparage: females, rhetoric, and translation. Much recovery yet to do.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Hitler's Shoah Novel; Aristotle's Woman Poem

No, Hitler didn't write a novel, much less one on the Holocaust of the Jews. Nor did Aristotle either write poetry or praise females.

My sarcastic title is to emphasize the fact that Adolf Hitler avoided writing fiction and that Aristotle never composed poetry.

Rather, Hitler wrote only in prose: Mein Kampf [aka My Very Own Sorrowful Struggles].

And so did Aristotle, scientific things like: ΠΕΡΙ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗΣ andΠΕΡΙ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗΣ [aka AROUND CREATIVITISTICS and AROUND SPEAKERISTICS or, what's been called Poetics and The Rhetoric].

These men believed that it took the pure prose of non-creative, non-fiction to call for the destruction of those of another race and to observe the denigration of the other sex.

In another post, soon when I have a bit more time, I want to talk about the values of ambiguity, of poetry, of fiction, and of creative nonfiction.